We've had a few confused users who have created award offers for students, moved them to 'Awarded,' but the students haven't been paid. After looking at the awards, they were missing an 'Award Period.' Given that Award Periods are entered by System Admins and can be anything you'd want, I'm not coming up with many examples for not wanting to assign an Award Period.

Could we please look into having this field (and 'Award Amount') be required? If moving in this direction, having 'Award Amount' be able to accept text as well as numbers would be greatly beneficial too.